Social What are some theories on why nearly everyone in the tech industry leans left?

[Osculater]

I've been to Reddit.

Try again.

Depends which sub-forums you are on

 

[PaddyO'malley]

All kinds of the ism and disorders

 

[fingercuffs]

How many of you work in the tech industry? - (rhetorical question don't actually answer that)

For those that do, how many of you lean left? How many of your coworkers lean left?


Why do you think that is?

Worldwide? I worked in big tech all my career, Silicon Valley there were only 3 Molesting Dopey McGropey supporters and I fired one of them.

In England the majority of us voted Conservative.

 

[Helden]

I've been to Reddit.

Try again.

No need, it's a fact

 

[fingercuffs]

I don't consider myself particularly logical but when it comes to selling IT and explaining why an IT Manager needs to give me hundreds of thousand of pounds with me I didn't do too badly. And I've ended up very left leaning.

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

Upper middle class suburban and city people who went to college have always been generally left-leaning.

It's changing though, and not just with Elon, tech dudes are turning to Trump because they don't like the border crisis, petty crime waves, crypto fleeing America, vaccine bullying and non-sensical DEI/LGBTQ+ agenda pushing.

 

[eddymotto]

Is it really the case that Big Tech is "left-leaning," or rather that the mainstream left-leaning paradigm (collectivism, disconnection from reality / primary of feeling over fact, shunning of independent critical thinking etc) leaves the door open for the kind of control, surveillance and censorship the people in charge want. I think it's the latter. In so far as the employees are left-leaning, they're just little NPC sponges soaking up the dominant ideology around them like most of society. People of no spine and no substance; they'd be extreme Islamists had they been born in an environment that promoted it.

There's a reason Musk is at the position he is in by the way. The powers that be wish for 360 coverage. The normies have already been eaten up by the borg, they just need to con the conservatives into giving them all their data through various freedumb controlled opposition narratives and platforms.

one of the best things I have ever read

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

Hot take answer... there are many reasons (including aforementioned education, in addition to youth, geography of where the businesses are, intimidation coming from the top etc) but one that I think goes under the radar is because tech companies are so heavy into social media as a business that it would absolutely soul destroying and hypocritical for many to not lean left.

I mean Facebook, Instagram, dating apps etc are literally driven by people promoting lives of instant gratification, lust, greed and excess, promiscuity, vanity, pride, fake spirituality, fake-it-to-you-make it etc. All the shit of the "happy pictures, sad people" industry that is causing mental health to deteriorate. The literally flipping of the script of vice and virtue.

In order to rationalize one's participation in those industries, you really can't hold the classic Emperor Pence-like social conservative values.

 

[no fat chicks]

I've been to Reddit.

Try again.

Compare reddit to rumble or truth social and suddenly it looks smart again

 

[The_Renaissance]

If I had to guess, the tech industry is essentially lots of nerds (not meant as an insult) and many of whom are on the spectrum mildly. In school, where your views are usually formed, these people would've been social outsiders to an extent and so automatically would've embraced the left and leftist views. The 'right' is essentially viewed as the jocks from school who are now adults in the real world - the tech industry is filled with people who would've been the opposite side in school.

 

[DoctorTaco]

big cities, which tend to be liberal. These places worship gay culture, atheism and hatred of conservatives, and anything traditional.

 

[DoctorTaco]

If I had to guess, the tech industry is essentially lots of nerds (not meant as an insult) and many of whom are on the spectrum mildly. In school, where your views are usually formed, these people would've been social outsiders to an extent and so automatically would've embraced the left and leftist views. The 'right' is essentially viewed as the jocks from school who are now adults in the real world - the tech industry is filled with people who would've been the opposite side in school.

This was probably true a decade or two ago, but as soon as there was real money to be made the “tech bro” and “coder bro” phenomenon was born.

 

[Hdfi]

They don't experience the consequences of the policies they support. Throw 4 or 5 buses full of Haitians into these liberals' neighborhoods and they'll become literally Hitler.

 

[AWilder]

How many of you work in the tech industry? - (rhetorical question don't actually answer that)

For those that do, how many of you lean left? How many of your coworkers lean left?


Why do you think that is?

Why do you think nearly everyone in tech leans left? I worked in tech and in my experience politics was rarely ever discussed at work. I wouldn't know what way people lean unless they went out of their way to tell everyone.

 

[Beechwood]

This is an 8 year old report but I've read that around 75% of Silicon Valley computer workers are foreign born, with a great many coming from countries that are left leaning socialist to communist. I've thought that has played a roll in why the tech industry has been left leaning, and in support of censorship.

37 percent of Silicon Valley foreign-born - Washington Examiner

U.S. students have been urged in the past few years to pursue careers in STEM-related industries due to a shortage of American tech employees, but a new report by the Institute for Regional Studies found Silicon Valley tendency to hire foreign-born workers. The tech hub has a significantly...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

....Nearly three-quarters — 74 percent — of Silicon Valley-employed computer and mathematical workers ages 25 to 44 are foreign-born, according to the 2016 Silicon Valley Index, which is released every February.....

 

[Barteh]

They're often book smart but not street smart and probably tend to be a little autistic and nerdy. Most likely low T levels as well.

I know a few of those types and they're very gullible and often blindly believe authorities. The typical "trust the science" crowd.

 

[chardog]

Upper middle class suburban and city people who went to college have always been generally left-leaning.

It's changing though, and not just with Elon, tech dudes are turning to Trump because they don't like the border crisis, petty crime waves, crypto fleeing America, vaccine bullying and non-sensical DEI/LGBTQ+ agenda pushing.

some of it location as well, lot of tech bro's in silicon valley are ordered around by heavily left leaning CEO's/upper management, and they usually follow suit.

the higher up tech folks are NOT heavily left leaning, generally, the better they get, the more centrist/right leaning they become.... this is just my opinion as a long time software engineer. More of the project managers, hr, glorified secretaries are the ones that lean left.

 

[chardog]

This is an 8 year old report but I've read that around 75% of Silicon Valley computer workers are foreign born, with a great many coming from countries that are left leaning socialist to communist. I've thought that has played a roll in why the tech industry has been left leaning, and in support of censorship.

37 percent of Silicon Valley foreign-born - Washington Examiner

U.S. students have been urged in the past few years to pursue careers in STEM-related industries due to a shortage of American tech employees, but a new report by the Institute for Regional Studies found Silicon Valley tendency to hire foreign-born workers. The tech hub has a significantly...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

....Nearly three-quarters — 74 percent — of Silicon Valley-employed computer and mathematical workers ages 25 to 44 are foreign-born, according to the 2016 Silicon Valley Index, which is released every February.....

yeah, the indians outnumber us bigly......

 

[Fox by the Sea]

have you watched zuckerberg lately?
got into mma and it saved his life
in about 10 years he'll be investing in border drone tech

 

[curryjunkie]

This was probably true a decade or two ago, but as soon as there was real money to be made the “tech bro” and “coder bro” phenomenon was born.

the kids who paid attention in class and had some ability went into the sciences, naturally they ended up running tech, the jocks were the ones who came out with a basic education or none and if they werent athletic ended up shelf stackers and fast food workers. describing a whole industry as on the spectrum is laughable..